Enviros reprimand the candidates: Wherefore, climate change?

posted at 5:21 pm on October 23, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

I keep a special Twitter list of hardcore liberals and green groups specifically to stay in tune with the vagaries of the environmental movement, and as presidential debate season wrapped up last night, there appeared to be a growing consensus among the eco-lefties that their pet issue of climate change has been given an undeserved back seat in this election cycle. Heck, forget the back seat — this is the first time climate change hasn’t been featured as a specific campaign issue since 1988, via the NYT:

…The presidential debates are now over, and not once did climate change surface explicitly as an issue. This campaign is the first time that has happened since 1988, and environmental groups – and environmentally minded voters – are aghast.

“By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe,” Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, said in a statement. …

Well before Monday’s final campaign debate, environmental groups dubbed the situation “climate silence” and even set up a Web site in an effort to force the issue into the campaign. …

In the second debate, the candidates spent more than 10 minutes talking about energy policy, yet the “c” word never came up. Candy Crowley of CNN, who moderated that debate, explained on the air afterward that while she knew that “you climate change people” wanted the subject raised, she felt that most voters preferred that the debate stay focused on the economy.

Despite President Obama’s consistent defense of his plans to bring about the green-energy jobs and economy that he somehow miraculously knows are “of the future,” the core policy of which implies the need to address climate change (but in practice seems a bit more attentive to the concerns of donors, crony-friends, and lobbies), the environmentalists don’t seem to feel that he’s expressed the level of openness and urgency for which they’re looking. He was supposed to be the great leader and champion of ‘receding oceans and a healing planet,’ but his campaign pretty firmly made it clear that they didn’t intend to make a big election issue out of it, and as for Mitt Romney’s plan to pretty much just allow free enterprise to do its own thing in the energy sector? Forget that.

Once more, I unleash my free-market-environmentalist plea into the ether: Contrary to what the greener-than-thou crowd might think, small-government free-market conservatives aren’t actually any fonder of dirty water, polluted air, diminishing resources, or catastrophic natural disasters than you are, nor are they so stubbornly convinced that planet earth is a static place immune from any changes in temperature. But the fact that the environmental movement always seems to be driven by big-government, social-control enthusiasts armed with gobs of egregiously prejudiced, agenda-driven “climate science” that almost unfailingly points to diminished economic prosperity as the only possible solution, it’s no wonder people get just a mite skeptical.

The sooner everyone realizes that wealthier societies are healthier societies; that free enterprise and private property are better suited to environmental quality than bureaucracy; that competition and technological innovation mean that we can become both richer and cleaner; that people just care more about the environment only when they have the luxury to do so; and that, above all, people respond better to freedom and profit initiatives than they do to command and control, the more the whole idea would be. I know that takes the “we must protect mother earth at all costs and decrease the harmful human population”-fun out of things, but there it is. These self-fulfilling prophecies of gloom and doom are just plain counterproductive.

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Besides doing everything they can to de-industrialize the world and kill millions of people, virtually all the money they get comes from taxpayers or other leftists (who probably get their money from taxpayers).

They lie, falsify, cheat and will do anything to attain their commie goals.

Lastly, for enviro-commies it’s always do what I say, not what I do. Enviro-commies will never sacrifice their luxuries or fossil fuels for Gaia … only the little people should suffer.

Oh well, ……the real question is what does Trump have up his sleeve for tomorrow?

Something that will embarrass the Romney campaign more than Obama, I suspect. If it’s these supposed divorce papers, not only won’t anyone give a darn, but people will probably feel sympathetic towards the Obamas more than anything.

Trump really oughtn’t be encouraged. He only think his actions through as far as they put him in the spotlight for a few seconds.

Asylum West (aka San Freakasisco) is now grumbling that not only were there no mentions of “climate change” (hmmm, I wonder what happened to prior definition “global warming”), but then ask why is it that Israel was mentioned 31 times. Hmmm… Do they know their 2 state senators are both Jews? Shouldn’t the asylum residents at least pretend they are not anti-semitic?

Now, the last time I heard some liberal talk about “ten years” it was 1988, Ted Danson. We had ten years to save the oceans; we were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death. Now Al Gore says we’ve got ten years. Ten years left to save the planet from a scorching. Okay, we’re going to start counting. This is January 27th, 2006. We will begin the count, ladies and gentlemen. This is just… You have to love these people — from afar, and from a purely observational point of view.

The sooner everyone realizes that wealthier societies are healthier societies; that free enterprise and private property are better suited to environmental quality than bureaucracy; that competition and technological innovation mean that we can become both richer and cleaner; that people just care more about the environment only when they have the luxury to do so; and that, above all, people respond better to freedom and profit initiatives than they do to command and control, the more the whole idea would be.

Erika, you assume these people actually care about the environment. Some of them probably do, but these are basically the useful idiot types. The rest are just socialists in green clothing. The environment is just a vehicle to attack the free market system and capitalism.

“By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe,” Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, said in a statement. …

No more wet dreams Earth First kooks, no more CO2 fraud allowed, Hey Hey, Hell No We Will Not Go,, into the kook CO2 fraud scheme.

Michale Mann may need your help Green Kooks, find him a good atty. as Mark Styne will FOI his ass and you on the board of directors of Earth First, Greenpeace , etal my have your co-fraud e-mails in the court house soon.

It’s funny how the answer to the horrors of global warming, global cooling, global blah blah blah is always to raise taxes and increase regulations. Is there ever a problem that a liberal tries to solve without those two solutions?

“By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe,” Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, said in a statement. …

Yeah, I’m sorry, as a nation we’re just not that into swallowing your bullcrap anymore.

…The presidential debates are now over, and not once did climate change surface explicitly as an issue. This campaign is the first time that has happened since 1988, and environmental groups – and environmentally minded voters – are aghast.

Ditto 2nd Amendment, ditto illegal immigration. Do we take these as positive signs that the proggies have surrendered on these formerly hot issues?

slickwillie2001 on October 23, 2012 at 5:46 PM

They might have surrendered advocating for them in the public forum, but behind the scenes they are continuing their counter-revolution. Please see: Leftist activist judges and unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats (EPA, Homeland Security, etc.)

Global warming stopped 16 years ago, after having warmed for a similar 15 years and we are likely to see cooling for the next 16 years if not longer.
That is where climate change is.

Note, of all the warming they say happened, fully 90% of it is either created by mann, as in just numbers added to a temperature reading, or heat island effects which never get validated or corrected for.

I was thinking about what’s the driving motivation behind the scare-mongering climate loons. And I realized that it’s not climate. There’s something similar going on to when O said he would raise capital gains taxes even if it reduced govt revenue, for fairness. The Prophets of Doom are similar in that many of them have maintained that it probably won’t make any difference to the climate if we embarked on even the most apocalyptic CO2 reduction plans (like O’s cap & trade bill that would have mandated 83% CO2 cuts).

I’m sure that all the Chicken Littles could care less about the climate. Really. It’s driven by guilt, by a vacuum left by the vacancy of religious feeling in the predominantly leftist and non-religious climate change pushers. It’s a push for a sort of self-flagellation. When they see that life is all good with abundant energy, and that some energy in their mind is wasted on non-essential pursuits or bigger than necessary cars or the like, this is an easy target, an easy victim of their guilt. Because of their secular guilt, they don’t like that “waste” to begin with. They were in search of a justification to legitimize their attacks on energy use, and in climate change they found it. Just like they did 35 years ago with the global cooling scare.

The eco-fascist GloBULL Warming Hoax died many years ago, was placed into a coffin that was securely shut with thousands of sturdy, solid nails and bolts, got buried 1000 feet into the Earth and then decayed into nothingness —- all as a result of THE TRUTH and THE UNDENIABLE FACTS.

But the lunatic-left still clings to their Goracle fantasy that “We’re all going to die” from the non-existent man-made warming. It’s like they’re worshiping a vampire. Understanding that does help you understand the mental disease of d-cRAT socialism and why OBOZObots exist.

But the fact that the environmental movement always seems to be driven by big-government, social-control enthusiasts armed with gobs of egregiously prejudiced, agenda-driven “climate science” that almost unfailingly points to diminished economic prosperity as the only possible solution, it’s no wonder people get just a mite skeptical.

The fact that their ‘science’ more often that not is naught but hysteria or outright lies, and is routinely debunked by reality and fact might also factor into that skepticism and reluctance to sign up for economic suicide.

Excellent. It is actually less legitimate than the Hare Krishna, as they are, at least, based on a real religion. This ‘warming cult’ is exactly that, a cult based on junk science and a political agenda, greed, and the will to commit extortion.

“By ignoring climate change, both President Obama and Governor Romney are telling the rest of the world that they do not take it seriously, and that America cannot be expected to act with the intensity and urgency needed to avert catastrophe,” Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth Action, said in a statement. …

I’m sure the men of the night shift at the steel mill just outside of Shanghai are sneering derisively at us for our collective lack of concern. While they do that , Mr. Pica, why don’t you go f**k yourself.

Besides doing everything they can to de-industrialize the world and kill millions of people, virtually all the money they get comes from taxpayers or other leftists (who probably get their money from taxpayers).

They lie, falsify, cheat and will do anything to attain their commie goals.

Lastly, for enviro-commies it’s always do what I say, not what I do. Enviro-commies will never sacrifice their luxuries or fossil fuels for Gaia … only the little people should suffer.

I don’t believe there’s anything we can do to fend off global warming, unless we add to it by crippling our economy and start letting people starve to death. If they want us to go that route, I suggest we start by starving the likes of Al Gore and the other alarmists who seem to think that their concerns come first.